05 May 2015

CIO, Helping homeless pets… One Vet at a time1700_ - Here at C-Level @ A Mile High, we met, Teri Angel Burley, officially representing Budget Management Institute where she is a volunteer teaching others how to be project managers. Teri helps with the certification program - and she also helps veterans to become project managers as well as being acclimated back to civilian life . Teri, also a veteran said, "I try to keep busy in my off-time, and I'm all about giving back time. I like to volunteer and I'm on lots of boards, and I look forward to getting further involved with C-Level" Teri is the new CIO at Envision Radiology. On a personal level Teri loves to create jewelry and, she does dog rescue. So she creates jewelry to sell [Angel Arms Jewelry] and 100% of those proceeds go to 'Pets for Vets'. Teri takes in special needs dogs, dogs that are disabled, and rehabs them either for being adopted or going to a vet. If a dog has too many medical needs, Teri keeps them. The jewelry sold is to either sponsor veterans or a pet that can be matched with a veteran for PTSD. So, that's what she does for fun, "Helping homeless pets… One Vet and one Pet at a time." RELATED LINKS: Angel Arms Jewelry || Envision Radiology || Budget Management Institute || Pets for Vets || CTA || KEYWORDS: Teri Angel Burley, Volunteering, U.S. Veterans, Pets for Vets, Homeless Pets, Angel Arms Jewelry, Budget Management Institute, bytes=3352349 LISTEN TO: Teri Angel Burley, CIO & Veteran

Business transformation teams focus1701_ - Evan Eakin is Red Robin Gourmet Burgers vice president of information technology. As part of that, "we're interested in driving change at Red Robin. I certainly own the technology part of that. Friends and colleagues in our Business Transformation Group focus on program management. And then also in our Operations Services arm, which in our business is about driving change in our restaurants. We have 400 corporate restaurants, across about 44 states in the U.S. and Canada, with about 28,000 team members that we've got to be able to reach. I can do that through technology but often that's not good enough if I don't have the change enablement and the change management. That's really what our three teams focus on, business transformation at Red Robin." Larry asked how long it takes to drive these changes through an organization like this. "Depending on the type of change" says Evan, "if you've got a large software package…" RELATED LINKS: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers || CTA Events || Colorado Technology Assoc || Software Channel || KEYWORDS: Evan Eakin, Red Robin, IT, Driving Change, technology, business transformation, program management, operations services, change enablement, change management, bytes=4292339 LISTEN TO: Evan Eakin, Vice President, Information Technology, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers

04 May 2015

Important Trends in technology1706_ If you’re a developer, Gluecon is your conference. So, be in touch and, get involved. We talked with Eric Norlin who is very pleased to announce that for the second year in a row, Gluecon will be having the API Strategy and Practice Tech Un-Workshops on May 19th (the day before Gluecon starts). These workshops are discussion-focused groups divided into two tracks — organized by the wonderful Kin Lane and Steven Willmott. The two tracks are “API Definitions, Design, and The API Lifecycle,” and, “The Data Exhaust From The Internet of Things.” The workshops are free and open to the public (please note that signing up for the workshops does not register for Gluecon), so don’t delay, sign up today! The API Strategy & Practice Conference brings together the leaders from the API sector to discuss the success and the challenges they face while executing their own API strategy. Oh, and don't forget the 'Gluecon's Women in Tech Scholarship' RELATED LINKS: 2015 API Strategy & Practice Tech Un-Workshops @ Gluecon - Registration || Glue 2015 Conference || REGISTER || Agenda || Software Channel || w3w3 Blog || KEYWORDS: Eric Norlin, Gluecon, Cloud, DevOps, Mobile, APIs, Big Data , Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Big Data, APIs, CIO, CTO, API Strategy and Practice Tech Un-Workshops, fragmentation, terraforming, Technology, Foundry Group, Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Jason Mendelson, Ryan McIntyre

Islands of Data - connected, working together1699_ As the C-Level @ A Mile High Live Auction begins, we are talking with Mark Geene, Founder & CEO of Cloud Elements. Since our last visit with Mark, a lot has happened. Mark tells us they've raised their first round of venture capital, added about 30 people to their company and moved into a new space down near Coors Field, in the building called 'Industry' - we're growing like crazy, and about a few hundred customers later. We are making it easier to make all the cloud services and applications that companies use, to work together. The Internet of Things is just a huge opportunity we're engaging in, where everything from street lamps to toothbrushes to appliances have APIs - but they don't work together. We help them all work together. And we help developers build applications and move data from all those devices and much more easily than they can do writing them individually. RELATED LINKS: Cloud Elements || INDUSTRY || Economy Builders || KEYWORDS: Mark Geene, Cloud-Elements, API, Application Programming Interfaces, Startups, S&B services, venture capital, cloud services, Internet of Things, Entrepreneurs, , bytes=2565750 LISTEN TO: Mark Geene, CEO, Cloud Elements

03 May 2015

CIOs asking for high-bred solution1698_ - We are talking with Bill Heuston, Director of Sales at Viawest. Bill has been with Viawest for the past 14 years and says it has been a wonderful journey. "… when I started it was like $6M in revenue and now we're over $200M in revenue. The next goal is to be a $500M-a-year-company..." Larry asked Bill what he's seeing in this high, almost frenetic growth, industry. "The enterprise space, the CIO is asking for high-bred solutions. So, there are so many defragmented cloud options with Amazon and Azure and Rackspace. But we're seeing a consistent message coming from the CIO that they want a single data operator that can provide all the different facets of their compute needs. Whether it be inexpensive archiving or backup like an Amazon or whether it be a Microsoft SharePoint application… and they want to have a company like Viawest come to the table and offer a solution that can provide all those things with one solution, one engineer, one support number to call…" RELATED LINKS: Viawest || Colorado Technology Assoc || C-Level @ A Mile High || STRIDE || Software Channel || KEYWORDS: Bill Heuston, Viawest, Colorado Technology Assoc, C-Level @ A Mile High, Software, Viawest, Technology Community, Hosting, Cloud Services, Healthcare Industry, Health IT Industry, bytes=4367990 LISTEN TO: Bill Heuston, Director of Sales, Viawest

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20 March 2015

Public Relations in 2015, SEO, Websites, Social Media1690_ 3/16/15 - Larry interviewed Doyle Albee, president of Metzger Albee Public Relations. Today they work with Healthcare, medical device companies, hardware, software, telecom those types of things. Very involved in digital security of late, which is no surprise - 2014 was the year of the breach, so we do a lot of work in those areas. But we have two big parts to our business. We do what I would call traditional public relations and then we also build web sites and do SEO and that type of thing. These are all public relations efforts that Metzger Albee does well, "...and, which we believe in 2015 is 'public relations' - it's SEO, websites, social media, content development, it's talking to the press - all of those things need to come together for an effective program. So all of those things... to keep our data safe, and to figure out how to keep our systems safe are just so, so important. Listen for more...Next week, the 'Internet of Things'... RELATED LINKS: Metzger Albee PR || BOCC || Entrepreneur Channel || KEYWORDS: Doyle Albee, Metzger Albee Public Relations, John Metzger, Healthcare, Medical Device Companies, Hardware, Software, Telecom, Digital Security, bytes=4576133 LISTEN TO: Doyle Albee, President, Metzger Albee Public Relations

19 March 2015

Connections made, jobs filled, and freelance positions1692_ 3/16/15 - Every other Tuesday morning Doyle Albee and Bing Chou host the Boulder Open Coffee Club (BOCC). The idea is to get a bunch of folks from the startup and business community together to talk about current events, job openings and things of that nature, talking about our common interests. Doyle said, "We bounce back and forth. We find a lot of people think they need a passport to go from Boulder-to-Denver or Denver-to-Boulder. And, in fact, you don't, just to be clear. But, we do an Open Coffee Club every Tuesday morning at 8:00 am. We do Denver one week, Boulder the next week. Some people come to both, it's two very different crowds, two very different feels. And it's a great chance to introduce yourself." Jason Mendelson of the Foundry Group actually started Open Coffee Club in Boulder when he first moved here because he wanted to meet people... Listen for more RELATED LINKS: BOCC || Metzger Albee PR || Mendelson’sMusings || In the News Channel || KEYWORDS: Open Coffee Club, Boulder, Denver, Networking Event, Doyle Albee, Bing Chou, Jason Mendelson, Connections Made, Jobs, Positions Filled, Freelance Positions, bytes=8647474 LISTEN TO: Doyle Albee & Bing Chou, Open Coffee Club